The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
-Henry David Thoreau
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
You say: “He lost his life” or “my life”, as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
I do not see what use a man can be put to, whose word cannot be trusted. How can a wagon be made to go if it has no yoke-bar, or a carriage if it has no collar-bar?
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately it is not fashionable to talk with them.
-Mother Teresa
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson